PREPAK pays tributes to 'martyrs'
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, November 08 2018: The proscribed PREPAK has paid rich tributes to all the 'martyrs' on the occasion of "Martyrs' Day" (November 12).A statement issued by the outfit's publicity and propaganda secretary-in-charge Leibaak Ngaakpa Luwang conveyed that the outfit has been observing "Martyrs Day" since November 12, 1978 in memory of all the martyrs who had laid down their lives for the cause of freedom of Manipur after PREPAK's Dhiren and Kabikanta and PLA's Gambhir were killed by adversary forces on November 12, 1978 and the party's leader RK Tulachandra alias Loyataba was killed by security forces inside the premises of Kabowakching Sugar Factory on November 12, 1985.Informing that PREPAK would observe the "Martyrs' Day" this year too on November 12 together with the masses, the outfit appealed to all the people not to organise any entertainment programme on November 12 and also to offer light at the residential gates of every household in the evening.

Alleging that the Government of India has been suppressing and oppressing the people of Manipur for the past 69 years, the outfit asserted that Indian democracy is characterised by corruption and injustice.

Freedom of India actually means freedom of a handful of people, it alleged.

Saying that revolutionary/liberation movements have engulfed Kashmir, Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, West Bengal, South India and the North East region, the outfit claimed that India will certainly fragment into multiple pieces one day.

It is an unmistakable indication that the revolutionary movements will emerge victorious in the end, it asserted.

Quoting Lt General George S Patton of the US Army who told his soldiers before launching an offensive against Nazi Army in France on June 5, 1944 that "No one wins a war after sacrificing his life for his Nation but wars are won by letting the enemies die for their Nation", the outfit asserted that only the survivors win wars.

Right to Self Determination guaranteed by the UNO is entitled to every people of Manipur and PREPAK will continue its war of liberation without any let up, it pledged.

Alleging that Manipur was-forcibly merged into the Indian Union on October 15, 1949, the outfit claimed that no country has any right to raise objections to the demand for restoration of Kangleipak's lost sovereignty.

It-also mentioned that Namibia got independence from South Africa on March 21, 1990; Marshall Island and Miconesia from USA on September 17, 1991; Eritrea from Ethiopia on May 25, 1993; Palau from USA on October 1, 1994; Kosovo from Serbia on February 17, 2008; South Sudan from Sudan on July 9, 2011.The end of the 20th century saw emergence of 28 independent countries, it added.

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